Cooking chart



March 15, 1938. w. G. KoHLENBr-:RGER 2,111,268

COOKING CHART I Filed June 9, 1957 Patented Mar. 15, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE COOKING CHART Walter G. Kohlenberger, Detroit, Mich.

Application June 9, 1937, Serial No. 147,228

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to improvements in the art of cooking and the principal object of the same is to provide a novel means by which the exact time for cooking Various vegetables and the like may be quickly and conveniently ascertained by rotatably moving a disc with an indicator which points to the vegetable desired, and the time for cooking the same will then be exposed to View.

Another advantage of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for this purpose which may be readily sold upon the market at a price within the reach of all.

With the foregoing in mind, it will become readily apparent that the invention possesses further advantages, all of which will be clearly revealed during the course of the following detailed description, illustrated throughout the accompanying drawing, and more fully pointed out in the .appended claim.

With reference to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the complete invention with a portion of the top disc thereof broken away as indicated.

Figure 2 is a sectional assembly taken through the center of the complete invention.

The invention comprises top disc l Which is pivotally secured to lower disc 2 by means of sleeve 3.

Discs l and 2 are preferably composed of a particular type of hard pressed paper of the proper thickness consistent with the requirements, and having a calendered surface susceptible to the impression of printed matter thereupon. Sleeve 3 is preferably composed of brass or of any suitable metal for this purpose.

Referring more particularly to Figure l, the manner in which the device is normally operated, is as follows:

Disc 2 is held within one hand, or is otherwise secured to some available object, then disc l is rotatably moved by engaging a finger of the remaining hand in the recess 4 and turning the upper disk about the pivot 3 to a position in which the recess is disposed opposite the particular kind of vegetable for which it is desired to ascertain the time required for cooking the same nutritiously. Stopping indicator 4 with enlarged arrow 5, as for example and in accordance with the drawing, the time required for cooking asparagus, is from to 30 minutes as indicated. Still referring to Figure l it is noted that indicator 4 is formed by providing disc I with indenture leading from its periphery and of such size that only one of the cooking time indications will appear, and all of the remaining time indications (Cl. l11b-70) being entirely covered and invisible, thusmaking it impossible for any confusion whatsoever in operating the device. It should also be noted that since the side edges of the recess have their outer end out diagonally, as shown at 4a, these portions may be engaged with a finger and the disk turned without bending the disk.

Sleeve 3 may be inserted through discs l and 2 in any approved manner and retaining them permanently in this relation, however when this is accomplished, this connection will be such that heavy binding of the discs will be avoided so that their actuating movement will be easy but firm and substantial and with minimum liability of the discs becoming deranged or otherwise out of order even during the course of a prolonged use.

It is further understood that enlarged arrow 5, the curved arrows in Figure 1, radially formed lines and the names of the various vegetables are printed upon the respective discs l and 2, and that a suitable name for the device and instruction as to the use of the same are also printed upon the face of disc l preferably where indicated in Figure 1.

In conclusion, it may be added that the invention as disclosed is merely illustrative of the general principle involved, and any moclication thereof that may later become necessary, will fall directly within the scope of the claim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new is:

In a cooking chart, a top disk and a lower disk of greater diameter than the top disk, a pivot fastener secured through centers of the disks for pivotally connecting said disks concentric to each other with a uniform, circumferentially disposed marginal portion of the lower disk exposed about margins of the upper disk, the exposed marginal portion of the lower disk having indicia marked thereon and companion indicia being marked upon the lower diskin c0- operating relation to the first named indicia and disposed under and normally covered by marginal portions of the upper disk, the marginal portion of the upper disk being formed with a recess leading from its peripheral edge and .adapted to successively expose the second named indicia as 4the upper disk is turned about its pivot, and said recess constituting a fingerhold for turning of the upper disk and having its side edges 'formed with diagonally cut outer ends whereby bending of the upper disk at the outer ends of side edges of the recess will be prevented when turning the upper disk.

WALTER G. KOHLENBERGER. 

